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Weekend open thread

It’s been a bit of a rough week for me, culminating in yet another fall in the parking lot at work on Friday (told you I was freak-accident prone). Not only that, but blogging this week has taken a lot out of me emotionally, considering the highly-charged atmosphere surrounding the immigration issue, and I’m feeling a bit out of sync and not ‘on my game.’ So I’m going to take the weekend off as I need to get my sea legs back (as the old saying goes – I think!).

I’ll be back on Monday, blogging here as well as guest-blogging at Right Wing News.

Sorry to hear of your fall – hope you are taking it easy and enjoying the weekend. Not a lot happening anyway, other than 3 terrorist attacks on Britain that the MSM is doing a fine job of classifying as “minor occurences” …you know, same old, same old!

Apparently John’s presidential bid is on it’s last leg, he had to bring out his wife to garner some sympathy. – Lorica

Three months after Elizabeth Edwards said that her cancer had returned in inoperable form, her role and influence in John Edwards’s presidential campaign is undiminished. She has made a flurry of charged public appearances, become a regular presence advising Mr. Edwards on the campaign trail, and wields behind-the-scenes influence in many internal campaign decisions, aides said.

The debut of Sicko left me with an interesting and scary thought. Cuba is an example of the Fairness Doctrine enacted. Those in power decide what is proper to say when, where, and without rebuttal. Sicko’s director and the people that view Cuba as a people’s paradise are pushing very hard for this type of civilized ‘freedom of speech’. A speech where there views are unmolested while contrary views must be ridiculed by law or hushed completely.

Why are the liberals, the people claiming to be more for the people than conservatives, constantly trying to stifle speech?

Fairness Doctrine
Speaking of God in public square
Hate speech legislation
Political Correctness
The list goes on and on

I can tell you why they struggle to stifle speech. The liberal ideology fails to hold up to logical, rational, and common sense scrutiny. Liberalism can only be successful in a vacuum and in the minds of nonproductive people/institutions.

Why are the liberals, the people claiming to be more for the people than conservatives, constantly trying to stifle speech?

Fairness Doctrine
Speaking of God in public square
Hate speech legislation
Political Correctness
The list goes on and on

I can tell you why they struggle to stifle speech. The liberal ideology fails to hold up to logical, rational, and common sense scrutiny. Liberalism can only be successful in a vacuum and in the minds of nonproductive people/institutions.

Comment by Mekan @ 7/1/2007 – 8:12 am

As I have said on this blog and others, it is time that we begin to call liberals by their proper name and that is Leftists. There is nothing liberal about the modern American Left. By and large, as conservatives, we are much more “liberal” than the Left will ever be. There is no progress in Progressive thinking. We are the “pro-choice” party. In terms of children, choose to have the baby; choose to be for adoption. In retirement, choose to take care of ourselves; choose to save, instead of relying on Social Security; in education, choose what schools we want our children to attend; public, private, or home schooled. These are just a few. The American left stifles speech, because they are only interested in their dream of a socialist/communist and multicultural state.